Friday, November 26, 2010

No One Comes Around When I'm A Mess

One of the earliest rock outfits to feature Tim and Todd Tobias (Gem, Guided by Voices, Circus Devils, Clouds Forming Crowns), 4 Coyotes released a couple of fine singles on Scat, both of which were quality yet neither one of which seemed to go anywhere. In fact, you can still buy this one from Scat for $3 (scatrecords.com, go do it), and I also know that Brass City Records still has copies, which is where I bought mine lo those many years ago. The a-side, "Throw Bones", starts off sounding a little like The Clean and then ends up getting totally rocked by the end of it, with a ferocious guitar part. The b-side is even more amped-up; "Worm In The Rain" sounds like The Replacements screwing around with a Yardbirds riff, and "2 Fast 2 Bury" reminds me more than a little bit of 4 Coyotes' stablemates, Prisonshake. Some pretty good stuff here, though no one seemed to know what to make of it at the time-- I remember Robert Griffin getting ticked off in a couple of Scat updates in a row because Flipside called 4 Coyotes "college rock" or something, although Flipside was never all that good at reviewing anything even slightly sideways anyway. Should've sent some review copies to Boner, that guy was always on top of things.

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For the record, I have not only lost my ability to take a joke, but I can also no longer sense danger, communicate with sea animals, see through walls, transform myself into a bucket of water or block of ice, burn a batter's bat to ashes with my fastball, fly an invisible plane, nor start fires and cause seismic waves using only mind control.

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The labels that have enough money to buy advertising all put out shitty records

Review policy

If you sent me something I must've lost it

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You can browse this blog and listen to the songs without having to download them first, by clicking on the highlighted song titles. The files will open in a new window; you can either hit "Play", or you can click on "Download" up in the right-hand corner to download them to your computer, which is the preferred method, because there's usually a cool graphic (or sometimes even lyrics) when you play the files using Windows Media Player.

Also, clicking on the photos will enlarged them. I guess some people haven't figured that out yet.

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This blog was originally intended to be a place for me to write about the records in my collection, regardless of their rarity/collectability-- or, at least, it was when I first started. Lately it's just been an excuse for me to make dumb jokes and spout off about a lot of stupid crap. Sometimes different things will be thrown in along the way just to confuse people and piss them off, which is okay. All screw-ups, wrong dates, and mis-statements will be ignored by me as if they were intentional, except for grammatical errors which will be edited and rewritten at least five or six times if necessary. Facts will often be misrepresented, as a way of mocking those people who think such things are important. Please note: This is just a hobby for me, and bands are written about here either because I own one of their records or because I've seen them play before and like them. Posting press releases for crappy bands that I have no use for is not really how I want to spend my spare time. If you want to know what kind of bands I like, just look at the sidebar to see which bands I've written about already, and you'll notice that your PR firm doesn't represent any of them. Most of the live band photos on this blog are mine, and if there's one of your band that you like then please feel free to use it, I don't care. It's your band anyway. The blog title itself was swiped from Paul Caporino-- "One Base on an Overthrow" was originally going to be the title of a M.O.T.O. record that I was going to release back in the '90s, but that never actually happened. Lucky for you, I guess.